Roughly speaking, since studying at Harvard, Oxford and Yale, the inquiries I press forward in teaching, conversing, and writing address three matters: the rivalry of philosophy and poetry, the relation of reason and revelation, and the quarrel of the ancients and the moderns. Among my many superior companions, most helpful have been and are: Plato, Montaigne, Nietzsche, the Bible, Rembrandt, Pascal, Tolstoy, and Shakespeare, Shakespeare for the longest time. Long stretches with fine students at Dartmouth, where I proposed a liberal arts honors program, and with ardent students at the University of Dallas, which already had a liberal arts core and I alone publicly defended, have advanced my inquiries, as also classes with honorable honors students in Vermont, Texas, Wyoming, Virginia, and Utah; and during my Humboldt Year in Heidelberg with Gadamer and in Greifswald for three summers. In all I’ve taught in some five “departments” of the modern university.With former students, fellow teachers, and professionals, I press on, meeting via the internet. We've studied: the Republic, The Betrothed; The Emile. Two years ago we studied Hamlet and Lear, then the Comedies, and last spring and fall the Histories. This summer, Don Quixote, and next, Magic Mountain, and some summer it will be War and Peace for whichever 20 of my 1001 former students want to gather together with mighty Tolstoy. Class days are the best days of my week! Time now to finish books, the fruit of all my days teaching. Up next a dialogue: Machiavelli and Shakespeare Converse; soon Seven Wonders of Shakespeare (St. Augustine Books); then The Teenager and the West (preface Roger Scruton). In the States you can reach me, in winters at 1275 Knopp School Rd. Fredericksburg, Texas 78624 and in summers at 1158 Bixby Road, East Wallingford, Vermont 05742; cell phone: 830-998-9092, and emails: drmichaelplatt1942@gmail.com